This site uses cookies to store information on your computer, to improve your experience. One of the cookies this site uses is essential for parts of the site to operate and has already been set. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work. To find out more about the cookies this site uses and how to delete them, please see the privacy notice.

I accept cookies from this site.

Some of the elements on this page require cookies to function correctly. You are not currently accepting cookies from this site. As a result, some of the elements on this page may not behave as you might expect.

General

Counting the environmental costs of ITS deploymentDavid Crawford looks at the latest thinking about calculating the benefits associated with the environmental side of ITS schemes. The penny is dropping that some environmental costs are being shifted outside the traditional bounds of evaluation methods for ITS-based road transport projects, according to researchers at the UK University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies.

European tunnel upgrades following new safety legislationAcross Europe there is a very mixed picture of compliance to latest safety standards for road tunnels. Best practice has emerged, however, in the wake of European legislation. Jon Masters reports High profile fatal fires following accidents in the Mont Blanc, Tauern and Gotthard tunnels prompted the 2004 European Union Directive 2004/54 on road tunnel safety. This meant all EU member states...

Data holds the key to combating VRU casualtiesAccident analysis software can help authorities identify common causes and make best use of their budgets, as Will Baron explains. More than 1.2 million people die on the world's roads each year and according to the World Health Organisation, half of these are pedestrians and vulnerable road users (those whose vehicle does not have a protective shell, such as motorcyclists and cyclists). While...

Features

A streetcar named...reliableWhen Atlanta's streetcar project had some issues, Siemens helped to solve them but started out by just listening, says Chris Maynard, the company's head of rail services....

US Cities push for smarter polesUS Cities The need to connect existing infrastructure has led various US transit authorities into imaginative alleyways: David Crawford examines some new roles for street...

Two wheels goodAs cycling becomes an increasingly popular method for commuting and recreation, what moves are afoot to keep the growing numbers of cyclists safe on ever-more-busy roads?...

The free and open internet is deadA key US vote may have changed what internet service providers are allowed to charge and how they restrict content: Joe Dysart explains why this has consequences for ITS...